Calling Home by Michael Cadnum

Overcome with guilt when he accidentally kills his best friend Mead, Peter, an alcoholic teenager, hides the body and embraces the fantasy that Mead still lives, even going so far as to impersonate him.

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Subsequently, Peter denies knowledge of Mead's whereabouts but makes reassuring phone calls to Mead's parents in a disguised voice, barely managing to hide his frantic self-loathing and his belief that Mead's dead personality is taking him over.